Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Call To Arms (That Have Hands That Hold Cameras)

Dear Everyone,

Did you ever dream of being an unpaid photo-correspondent for a mildly popular blog? Well, dream no more, B. I'm looking for people who live in, or will be taking a road trip to, any of the American League cities in 2007. When the Red Sox are in town, take some pictures, and send them to me electronically for posting here. You can even caption them yourself! Or share whatever stories you may have to tell. E-mail me at [Two2067 at aol dot com] or put a comment on this post telling me you're interested.

I'm prepared to bribe you with one (1) DVD of my Red Sox World Series Rolling Rally mini-movie, which, trust me, looks way cooler than it does over the internet.

I've already got Jason helping me out in Seattle. And my cousin Kara out in San Diego--consider this my asking her. And I'll be in Baltimore for a game myself.

The following cities are up for grabs: KC, Arlington, Toronto, Minneapolis, Oakland, Detroit, Cleveland, Tampa, LA, Chicago, plus the bonus NL cities of Atlanta and whatever city the Arizona club plays in. And New York. That's right, I say New York because I don't have any Toilet tickets this season, and I'll be moving to Boston next month.

Just thought I'd throw that in there without making a huge deal about it. How you like them apples?

This offer is mainly for people who don't have their own blog, but if you do have a blog, and for some reason would rather have your pics go up here than on your own site, or want to just put a few pics up here, by all means, feel free. But I wouldn't want to take attention away from your own blog. I'd link back to you, of course, if you do want to do that. Also, there can be multiple people for each city, which would actually be better for the cities the Sox make multiple trips to. Let me know. Thanks, humans.

Update (and first example of beggar being chooser): When I say "pictures," I mean mainly pre-game and dugout type shots. If you get good in-game action shots, that's cool, too, but I like the stuff you can't see on TV more, whether it be a guy picking his nose in the on deck circle, or a group of Red Sox fans in the stands in funny wigs, or stuff around the ballpark.

ps: I'm psyched your moving to Boston!!! Our house is on the market and I'm hoping we'll be moving before the end of the Summer. I'm prettty confident that we won't move before the Red Sox come out here though, so I'll get you pictures!

Thanks, Kara! One day we're in NY and Cali, and the next we'll be living closer to each other than we ever have!

All I have to do with the blog name is change "in" to "from." The "official initials" will just change from ARSFIPT to RSFPT or RSF/PT--which is a change I could've made anyway, just taking out the little words.

Wow, this is pretty huge news. I guess my days of almost-but-never-quite running into you on the UES are over. I'll miss all your observations about NYC. On the other hand, I'm sure you'll have all sorts of interesting things to show us about Boston.

My wife and I were thinking about getting a small apartment in the city for work convenience/weekends; maybe I'll have to take over the ARSFIPT title...

AJM: Thanks for the vid. Gammons has gone from unintentionally funny while not trying to be funny to pretty funny at being intentionally funny.

Amy: Thanks. Will "wicked" just slowly ease in to my vernacular now?

SFSF: Fear not about Chan. He'll get a new place in the city--which will be great for him. He's not big on roommates. I give him credit for dealing with me for two years. That was the plan--two years. And thanks for giving me some pics from Oaktown. That'll be cool.

Redsock: Indeed, you are the text master. Your use of visuals is at the perfect level, I think. It's like cursing--don't overdo it, just hit 'em with one when they least fucking expect it. This is what gets you into SI!

Ryan: Nice Michael Kay impression. It'll be nice to not have to hear that man's voice!!!!!

I can definitely get you B-more pics from the two series you won't be at in April and September, and I might be able to enlist my bro-in-law to snap some Sox pics in Cleve-town, as he's a hoity-toity season ticketer at the Jake Burns out there...

It sounds like you already have a Seattle person, but if you want an "alternate camera angle," I'd be happy to send over some pix. I'll be going to most of the games out here and I usually only post one or two photos on my blog.

My thanks above was written before I saw Kristin's comment. So, Kristin, yes, that would be sweet! You could battle it out with Jason to see who's the champion of Seattle photo-taking. Also, I somehow never knew you were in Seattle. I even have your blog in my links listed with the (MA) notation. I'll change that to (WA). And thanks for the congrats.

Wow, that's awesome. Thanks, Novy. I appreciate all of you answering, this is really cool. I know JS from baseball heavy is going to Minneapolis this year, too. Hopefully she sees this soon and wants to add to the Minny fun.

Of the 26 road series', we've got 14 potentially covered (I'm talkin' to a guy in KC...), plus three Yankee series' which will be easy to take care of. Finding someone in Tampa would potentially be 3 more series' covered. The six left are Texas (2), Arizona, Atlanta, LA, and Detroit--maybe one of Sam's Michigan buds could do that one. This is really moving along. Thank you all.

Just moved to the Portland, OR area from the Bay Area and I'll be headed to a couple of the Sox games in Seattle in August. I'll be happy to send you whatever I can get (even though you may already be covered for Seattle).